Total pages in book: 34
Estimated words: 31666 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 158(@200wpm)___ 127(@250wpm)___ 106(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 31666 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 158(@200wpm)___ 127(@250wpm)___ 106(@300wpm)
“He doesn’t get into the house,” Carver said.
He looked at Morgan and Roxy. There was no regret for what he’d done. This is what he had to do. People wanted him to pay for what he did to the Rose family, and now they were begging him to take over from Romone.
What they didn’t understand was he’d been determined to take down Romone from the very beginning. Every single little fuckup had brought them to this moment because he’d orchestrated it.
Many years ago, he and Romone had fought side by side. They hadn’t been brothers. They’d been two souls O’Neil had discovered. Romone was never as good as him. Although Romone always won each fight, he didn’t have the skills to go against him. There was always something holding him back.
Carver knew that. It was a fear of losing for Romone. A fear of dying. Carver, on the other hand, didn’t fear anything. He didn’t fear death or the end. He was more than ready for it. Death was part of life. It was a cycle, and he reveled in it.
So, to Romone, there had always been a fight he wanted to be part of, but O’Neil had always told him not to be stupid, to only take the fights he knew he could win.
Carver didn’t do that. He took the fights with no guarantees. This was the path he chose, and it suited him. With nothing to lose, he didn’t care if he won or lost. It was just money, just a fight, a means to an end.
Romone accepted what O’Neil did. That the boys who wanted out, had to die. There was only one way, and that was O’Neil’s way. Carver didn’t agree. He always knew there was going to be another way, and he took it. Romone had vowed that there would come a time when it would come down to a fight between them, and only one of them would be victor.
Carver smiled. There was no competition, not for him.
“Don’t worry, sir, we all know nothing can happen to Morgan,” Andy said.
“Nor to any of you.” He turned toward Andy. “All of you put your faith in me for my protection and I’m not going to let you down.”
“You never could, sir,” Andy said. “We all stand by you.”
He looked toward Morgan again. He’d been taking her shooting for an hour every day. She hated leaving Roxy at home, but he wouldn’t take the dog to practice. She was already too much of a distraction inside the house. Also, Morgan was a terrible shot. She could fire a gun, but she had not gotten many targets. At best, it had been one in ten. Today had been a fluke, as she got two out of five. But she’d not been able to repeat it.
He looked at her, seeing how sweet and kind she was with Roxy. Morgan was going to make an amazing mother. He knew it was only a matter of time before she got pregnant, if she wasn’t pregnant already. She wasn’t taking anything to stop conception, and he wasn’t wearing condoms, nor was he slowing down when it came to feeling her wrapped around his cock.
Fucking Morgan, making love to her, spending time with her, was his favorite thing to do, and Carver wasn’t used to having favorite things or favorite people. This was all new to him.
“Look, there’s Daddy,” Morgan said, catching his eye.
“Daddy?” he asked.
Morgan giggled. “Yep, Daddy. He will love and protect you always, won’t you, Daddy?”
“Yes,” he said.
And he meant it. He’d love and protect Morgan and Roxy, along with any children they might have for the rest of their lives.
Chapter Eleven
Morgan looked out across the gardens, holding onto Roxy as she watched the snow coming down. She’d watched the forecast last night, and knew snow was due. It had come a little early.
Thanksgiving was around the corner, and she and Carver had already celebrated their first Halloween. She had to get Andy to agree with her to organize a load of pumpkins, as well as buy him a costume. Carver had never dressed up for Halloween. She hadn’t either, and she rather like that they were having new experiences together.
She got all of Carver’s employees to agree to attend a Halloween party. She decorated several rooms of the house, to surprise Carver. The kitchen staff organized the food, all of them got their own costumes, and she even got one for little Roxy.
On Halloween day, Carver was out of the house as they put the last of the finishing touches to the place. When he arrived home, he’d stepped through the door and she immediately asked him to trust her. He’d hesitated but then allowed her to put a blindfold over his eyes then guide him upstairs. She didn’t want him to spoil the surprise. The moment she got them to the bedroom, he uncovered his eyes, and then looked at her.